I know this is not a "rare" bird per se but I have never actually found one on my own and I know that they are not super easy to locate. There was an Eastern Screech-Owl whinnying and trilling loudly at the NE intersection of 41st and Pillsbury in South Minneapolis at 10:45pm- a mere 2 blocks from my house. I cannot believe my owl luck lately! First I get a Great Horned Owl being chased by Tree Swallows at midday in coastal South Carolina in April, then Flammulated Owls performing a duet in Oregon at the end of May, then a Barred Owl literally screaming right above my sister and me at a campfire in western Iowa in early June, then the incredibly unlikely view of what I truly believe to be a Long-eared Owl in southern Carlton county this last weekend and now an Eastern Screech-Owl calling loudly up the hill from my house. Crazy!
If anyone goes to look for this bird please try to limit any callback. It would be a shame if it were to chased out of the neighborhood by the unscrupulous use of their call. I am not sure what the protocol is for reporting owls but since this species isn't threatened I thought it couldn't hurt to report it. I suspect that if someone simply listened for it at the right time of night it would call again without prompting. Cheers, Jason Caddy Minneapolis [email protected] ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
